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On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 01:09:16 PM behrouz khosravi wrote: |
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> > You need bumblebee. Otherwise it's not possible to use the Nvidia |
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> > Optimus chip. |
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> I think that it is possible, or supposed to be possible! |
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> The gentoo wiki says that Nvidia drivers are now supporting the optimus, so |
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> it is called "native optimus support" |
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> > > I just waned to use optimus without that, but it seem the it is not |
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> > > easy! |
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> > It's not possible, because the Nvidia Optimus chip isn't a full featured |
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> > graphics card, and doesn't write directly to the screen. Joost already |
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> > explained it pretty well. |
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> > Exactly, that is why the Nvidia driver is using the xrandr for offloading |
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> the tasks. |
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That convoluted method (xrandr......) is what bumblebee does in the |
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background. Along with enabling/disabling the nvidia chip. |
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